How many times in a year, you opt upgrading your mobile phone by discarding the old ones? How often your smart-phone is pick-pocketed or stolen, necessitating buying of a new one? How frequently do you drop your phone at shopping mall or elsewhere with little prospect for retrieval, thereby going for another? These factors and many more, will make you go for procuring a new smart-phone.

With a new phone in hand, you have several issues for taking care of, like loss of your notes, address-book, pictures, music, et al. All these you have to search out – if you have fortunately kept the copies somewhere - and enter in your new handset painstakingly. A tedious, repetitive, monotonous and time consuming job indeed!!
Not any more now. Not at least for the Android users. A free application, SyncDroid, - available on the Play Store - helps you backup all the essential ingredients of your smart-phone without any fuss. SyncDroid is the easiest and most powerful backup tool on Android. Incidentally, it has both – Android App and Windows PC client. With the former, one can easily backup and restore Android to and from SD Card or Drop Box. Similarly, with the help of desktop client, he can backup data to his PC.

Backing up of media files like those containing audio, video, camera roll and SD card photos and information related to contacts, sms, call logs, browser book mark is easy. It also restores SMS, bookmark, call log, contact, audio, photo, SD card photo and video on your Android phone and tablet. One has to select specific category and files to back up or restore. He can either create backups to SD Card or Dropbox account or restore backups from SD card or Dropbox account. The application supports both manual backup as also schedule backup. Under the latter category, one needs to specify backup frequency like daily or weekly, backup time and category for schedule backup. Adding name or note for any backup too is possible. This apart, managing of backups on your device is easy. It is basically a simple task to work with SyncDroid for PC to transfer data between Android device and PC via USB cable. Our suggestion is to try your hand on this application and enjoy hassle-free data backups and restorations.

Author : Syed Zafar Ahmad

Designation:Executive EditorBio:A freelancer with a flair for experimenting with innovative technology and electronic gadgets that could enrich the life of a modern common man, and a consultant in issues touching every-day life of a computer suave professional.